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Femme fatale German cinema myth, dynamic TV legend, Munich society icon: TV star Uschi Glas cannot be contained. Now the 63-year-old marathon actress is surfing, slim and willowy, through a new ZDF series: Zur Sache, Uschi! by Wolfgang Timpe and erol gurian (PHOTOS)

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Design fan Uschi Glas with Mercedes CL500, Hermès belt and Gabriele Blachnik pantsuit: “I like the Audrey Hepburn Look.”

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is no evil God. I have constructed my own. He stands for devotion, tolerance, altruism, and humor.â&#x20AC;?

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CL500 on the way home to Nymphenburg: “It drives so very smoothly. I love its unadorned instruments.”

schi Glas chose our route for cruising herself. “I love the drive from Nymphenburg via Grünwald through the Alpine foothills to our golf club in Riedhof bei Wolfratshausen. When I see the mountains, my heart leaps up,” she announces -- and everybody plays along, even Peter. After days and days of rain, the sky clears for three hours, the sun laughs in the most beautiful Bavarian advertising style, and the TV star beams about the race with the noble CL500 Mercedes coupe. In contrast to her own “sooner womanly, cuddly” 500SL, she finds ”the elegant cool of the light leather” very appropriate, and for this passionate driver, the sleekly designed model drives” so very smoothly.” After a few moments, she has understood all of the necessary operating functions. “You see,” she laughs, I like that about Mercedes. I love the unadorned instruments, how you can see everything at a glance and it’s all user friendly to operate.” Beams, talks, entertains. Uschi Glas, a happy woman. “The Bavarian countryside is soooo beautiful,” croons this devoted resident of Munich in Bavarian dialect, “and after I have been away for a while, I always fall in love with it again. I don’t want to live anywhere else.” She says this and quickly spurs on the 388 HP luxury vehicle with great sound from a valiant 5.4 liter displacement and eight cylinders befitting its rank. “We have to hurry with the photo shoot; this afternoon it is supposed to rain again.” The actress, entirely a pro, cannot do anything else; she is always following the train of thought. “Uschi, give it your all,” cries the photographer when she swings her tender 1.68 meters and 56 kilograms dynamically onto the radiator. But he doesn’t have to say this. She likes the idea to sit on the hood of the CL500 and starts chanting Buddha tones right away. ”And I do only what I actually want to,” she says laconically. The woman knows what she wants. This Protestant Christian from Landau in Franken (“Tthis is the total

diaspora in Catholic Bavaria”) likes the focus on life and the open nature of Buddhism. She herself does not feel obliged to any religion or church. And with an eye on the current struggles in the name of Islamic and Christian world views, she says: “For me, there is no evil God. I have created my own. He stands for devotion, tolerance, altruism, and humor.” Does so much self-assertion reconcile well with a situation in which the actress Uschi Glas must do what directors or photographers say? “Yes clearly, this is my craft. I am an actress, I take direction like a lighting assistant and do everything absolutely a hundred percent.. Posing is part of my profession.” Uschi Glas has been practicing this profession with uniquely long-lasting success for 40 years, since she was immortalized in German cinematic mythology in the cult film ”Zur Sache, Schätzchen.” She knows herself and the expectations of the industry. For the photo shoot, she appears in a sleek white pantsuit by the Munich star designer Gabriele Blachnik, and an Hermès orange bracelet made of ostrich leather; the appropriate high heels by Dolce & Gabbana round out her perfect styling. Is she addicted to a brand? ”Nonsense,” she replies, “I like good design and beautiful materials. But it has to fit my personality. You can never disguise yourself with a brand.” And what drew her to the Blachnik pantsuit? “I like this Audrey Hepburn look,”says with a laugh. She admires the art of fashion designers, “who sense the taste of the future months and years in advance” and then set trends themselves if they can. ”I think that’s sensational.” Apropos Audrey Hepburn. The modern luxurious retro look of the fashion designer Blachnik is a current trend. The Stuttgart designers at Mercedes also had a nose for this and, in the middle of the digital age, they placed a neo-chic analog clock with gleaming chrome surrounded by the finest exotic woods in the dashboard of the CL500. With Uschi Glas, you can sense the desire to cruise as we continue on to the photo shoot. The photographer would like to photograph her at full speed with her hair blowing in the wind. No problem. As usual, she performs her role – and then disappears suddenly. She briefly tests the top speed of 250 kilometers per hour by pressing the accelerator to the floor. What

TIME FOR FEELINGS Uschi Glas (64) entered into her second marriage with the corporate consultant Dieter Hermann (56) in October 2005. She was married to her first husband, Bernd Tewaag, from 1981 to 2003. They have three children together: Julia (21), Alexander Christoph (26), and Benjamin (32). Headlines trumpeted not just her continued successful work as an actress, but also her bitter divorce from Bernd Tewaag. cruisen go sixt 79

GO My Way “My acting teacher tortured me so much that I wanted to kill her. I have to be me, I said to myself, do not sell yourself to the profession.”

accounts for her joy in driving? “Driving is sensual, relaxing. I like to drive alone in the car until I have to turn around. It's easiest for me to relax when I'm alone.” Cut to Landau-Dingolfing, Franken, end of the 1950s. Her father works at the auto manufacturer Glas (it’s only coincidence that the last name is the same), which is later taken over by BMW. Black-and-white TV is just coming along, and the screens of post-war Germany are filled with the “20th Century Fox weekly report” with stars, starlets, and events from around the world. The teenager Helga Ursula Glas, the pet of this family with four children, is already performing in one-act plays at school (“In the first one, I played a professor who was annoyed by a wasp, with a pillow in my pants and under my blouse”) and she loves the cinema. In the local movie theater, this brat hides in the folds of the heavy dark-red silk curtain and sneaks

The TV star with ostrich leather bracelet by Hermès, South Sea pearls with 30 diamonds by Sévigné, high heels by Dolce & Gabbana: “I like good design. But it has to fit my personality. You can never disguise yourself with a brand.”

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SW ITCHING OFF “Driving is sensual, relaxing. I like to drive alone in the car until I have to turn around. It's easiest for me to relax when I'm alone.”

B AD MOODS “I have to be able to look into the mirror for myself each evening. How did I do today? I can tolerate bad form during the day, but not with people.”

P HOTO SH OOTS “I am an actress, I take direction like a lighting assistant and do everything absolutely a hundred percent. Posing is part of my profession.”

THE 19 6 0s “I don’t like the mainstream. At the end of the 1960s, you had to be on the left and support Willy Brandt. It was expected of me. So I had to oppose this, I did not want to submit to this coercion. This nearly cost me my career.”

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into the cinema. “I felt drawn by it.” The sensual cornerstone for this unique German acting career in film and TV was laid; the trained bookkeeping secretary took care of the rest -- with impertinent self-awareness at the beginning (“I told myself I could do anything because I wanted to”) and later naturally, with iron discipline with respect to herself and others, as time would tell. The great producer Horst Wendlandt (Edgar Wallace films) discovered her, engaged her for a supporting role, and gave her a training contract. Just one year after her black-and-white premiere film, “The Sinister Monk,” in which she appeared with the movie stars Karin Dor, Harald Leipnitz, and Siegfried Lowitz, Uschi Glas won her first lead role in 1966 as Apanatschi in “Winnetou and the Half-Blood Apanatschi,” with Pierre Brice, Lex Barker, Götz George, and real location shoots in the former Yugoslavia -- in color and in Cinemascope. The cinema dream of Helga Ursula from Landau had become reality. Helga Ursula became Uschi Glas, alias Apanatschi, the pop star of a whole “Bravo” magazine generation with celebrity cutout puzzles, fan mail, and all the rest. It was also a difficult education with thelegendarily merciless acting teacher Annemarie Hanschke. “She tortured me so much that I wanted to kill her”. Her stubbornness showed itself ear-

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Luxurious retro style . The finest exotic woods, neo-chic analog clock on the instrument panel: “The light leather ensures an elegant coolness.”

mercedes cl500. The noble coupe by the Stuttgart automaker is a proud 5.07 meters long and is driven by a smooth 8-cylinder motor with 5.461 liters displacement and a hefty 388 HP. Its top speed is 250 km/h. For this, however, you have to come up with the base price of EUR 105,850. What you get in return: in addition to exquisite driving, the instrument panel offers the very finest retro style.

ly on. As a young star and when she was still in training, it was already clear to Uschi that she had to be herself. She told herself even then, “Do not sell yourself to the profession.” Where did this early rebelliousness and clarity about her own path come from? ”Surely from my father,” she says. From him she learned what she still follows today: “I have to be able to look into the mirror for myself each evening. How did I do today? I can tolerate bad form during the day, but not with people.”

he biggest test and her greatest successes lay just ahead: “Zur Sache, Schätzchen“ with Werner Enke, director: May Spills. The 1967 cult film with its legendary striptease in the police station, in which she appeared not naked as was common at that time, but, to the surprise of all including the director, in a soft white negligee. The “Schätzchen” was born. Uschi Glas was immortalized in German film. Even today, she asks herself how she “tricked” May Spills. She did not want to take off everything just because the Zeitgeist demanded she do so. ”The dramaturgy did not require that at all”. She did not want to, and she prevailed with cleverness. She went to Krines, Munich’s finest lingerie shop, for the custom-tailored negligee, “not as square as the 1960s fashion of Triumph & Co,” but highlighting 82 go sixt cruisen

her bust and with the finest lingerie lace: “I wanted to be sexy, not naked like everyone else.” This was when Uschi Glas, femme fatale, was born. May Spills and producer Peter Schamoni were thrilled, and so was the team, the public, and everyone in Munich. In 1967, the negligee-clad Uschi looked down on daily life from a 20-meter-high billboard on the Lehnbachhaus. “It was sensational.” She is still astonished at her scoop today (”I paid for everything myself just so I wouldn't have to strip”). Now she is an icon of New German Cinema, a symbol of the insubordin ate mood of 1968. Against her will. Like everybody, she sat in the film scene bar “Hahnhof,” where the bread was free, the beer and wine flowed freely, and “people talked themselves silly until four in the morning” -about films and politics. It was the time in which Willy Brandt called for “More democracy” and “stern” shook the Republic with the women’s confession “We aborted.” And Uschi, the “Schätzchen”? With her fresh popularity, she was supposed to help in the service of “Vote for Willy” and with the fight over abortion. But she didn't want to, as a matter of conviction. This nonconformist from Landau struggles against the collective opinion. She didn’t bear the cross for Willy. Like a wildfire, this news spread through the bohemian Munich film scene. When she entered the “Hahnhof,” she was booed out by about 150

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GO My Way HAPPY STREET. Uschi Glas and her husband, Dieter Hermann, in the linden-lined entrance to their golf club in Riedhof bei Wolfratshausen.

”The Bavarian countryside is soooo beautiful. After I have been away for a while, I always fall in love with it again. I don’t want to live anywhere else.”

colleagues. The “Schätzchen” was out of favor with the New German Cinema. The Zeitgeist was left-wing, Uschi Glas remained true to herself.

oes she sometimes regret her conservative rigor in retrospect? “No. I don’t like the mainstream. At the end of the 1960s, you had to be on the left and support Willy Brandt. It was expected of me. So I had to oppose this, I did not want to submit to this coercion. This nearly cost me my career.” Nearly. She pursued her career with passion. First in the cinema with Edgar Wallace and the ”Pauker" films, then she became a permanent fixture on TV with ”Polizeiinspektion 1,” ”Zwei Münchner in Hamburg,” and, and, and ... Her audience fell to her feet, she received two Bambis and three “Goldene Kameras,” and in 1998, the Bundesverdienstkreuz – the highest German civilian honor. And today, she is still “Uschi nazionale.” When, after 22 years, her marriage to Bernd Tewaag, the father of her three children, broke up, this became fodder for the tabloids. She fought for her reputation. When a test on the home shopping channel classified the face crème she sold as dangerous, she took on this German consumer institution. And is still fighting to this day. With Dieter Hermann (56), whom she married in October 2005, she has found personal happiness in her life once again. “My wife has a lot of self-discipline. I marvel at this," he says. ”The glamour of her job doesn’t interest me at all. When partners work together, both become stronger. Something fits.” When these two turn into the alley of linden trees in front of their golf club in Riedhof and they are alone, even the nonconformist seems more relaxed. Uschi Glas: German cinema myth, dynamic TV legend, and Munich society icon. A woman who goes her own way. How else could she (sorry!) take on a role as a surfing brewery owner for the ZDF series “Zur Sache, Lena” at that time the age of 63 and cut such a perfect figure in a merciless neoprene suit? She liked the comedic script, the ironic play on her inextinguishable cult movie as “Schätzchen,” and she will act as always at full steam, with pleasure, and with a great deal of personal enjoyment. Uschi Glas always gives her all – for herself and for her roles, and also for her husband. This femme fatale simply cannot be contained.

uschi glas a German career In 1967, 23-year-old Helga Ursula ”Uschi” Glas became ”Uschi nazionale” in the cult film ”Zur Sache, Schätzchen.” She also won her way into the hearts of teenagers as the half-blood Apanatschi in ”Winnetou,” she made a lot of Edgar Wallace films, and became a TV star, in the series ”Zwei Münchener in Hamburg,” among others. She has received all the big prizes, from the Bambi to the ”Goldene Kamera” -- and in 1998, the Bundesverdienstkreuz. With her husband Dieter Hermann, she is fighting for the life of the German Debbie, who is sitting on death row in the US. For information and protest letters to Governer Jerry Brown of California, visit www.uschiglas.de. 84 go sixt cruisen

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